How to distinguish measles from typhus

Many people confuse measles with typhus, so there is no way to take care of children in time. Here are some characteristics that distinguish these two diseases.

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Symptoms of measles and typhus

Measles is an acute infectious disease caused by measles virus. This virus is highly infectious, making it easy to translate. Measles is spread from person to person through the respiratory tract directly from the sick person to healthy people through saliva droplets emitted by the sick person when coughing or sneezing. The patient can infect others before and after a few days of symptoms. The disease is very contagious in places where many children are concentrated. For example, in health facilities and schools. People who are not vaccinated or inadequately vaccinated are very vulnerable. Measles is a benign disease but if there is a serious serious complication it can lead to death.

In the incubation period, the onset of typhus and measles (an average of about 1 week) is usually similar, manifested by symptoms such as mild fever or high fever of 39-40 degrees Celsius, fever continuity. Appears tired feeling, lethargic because of high fever, muscle aches, children anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea.

- Common rash fever (Rubella or German measles, caused by Rubella virus) . This is benign typhus but very dangerous for pregnant women: After reducing fever, children will develop a rash, headache, swollen glands lasting from 1 to 7 days. The notes are pink and smooth, start from the face and quickly spread to the body, then down the forearms and the foreleg before disappearing. The board lasts 1-5 days, but most often 3 days. After the board has gone away, it often leaves no marks on the skin surface. During the period of 7 days before the rash and during the rash is the time when the patient is most infectious.

- Measles rash: At first, the rash appears in the back of the ear, then spreads to the face, abdomen of the abdomen and body. When the measles rash disappears, it disappears in the order that it floats on the skin. Characteristics of measles rash is a rash-like rash, floating on the skin surface, leaving the bruises in the nodule . In addition, children with measles also have symptoms associated with runny nose, cough, conjunctivitis.

Complications of measles and typhus

- Rash fever due to the common virus group is mostly benign. Children with typhus if properly cared for and properly treated, the disease will go away after 5-7 days without causing any dangerous complications for the child.

For pregnant women with typhus, especially in the first 3 months of pregnancy. 90% of pregnant women in the first 3 months of pregnancy will give birth to babies with malformations, bad conditions such as: deafness, cataract, small eye defects, congenital glaucoma, microcephaly, inflammation brain, meninges, mental retardation, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly . For those who are sick, they must be isolated for a week from the rash to avoid infecting those exposed.

- Measles virus rash can cause many dangerous complications for children if children are not detected early and timely treated, especially those with weak resistance such as premature birth, malnutrition . Complications Common in patients with measles is due to viral replication or bacterial superinfection causing otitis media, pneumonia, diarrhea, laryngitis, bronchi, trachea and encephalitis. Everyone who is not sick or has an inadequate immunity is at risk. Children are easily infected and may develop serious complications. Babies born to mothers who have had measles before will be passively immunized by their mothers for 6 - 9 months. Most measles deaths are due to severe complications.

Preventive measures

- How to prevent typhus: Vaccination for children vaccinated against 3 rubella, measles, mumps applied: 1st injection at 12 months of age; 2nd injection in the age of 4-6 years old. Women of reproductive age receive a single dose (women can only become pregnant after 3 months of vaccination).

- How to prevent measles: Preventing diseases in ways for children to get measles vaccination at 9 months of age. And the second injection when the baby is 18 months old to ensure a sufficient dose, antibody levels help children to be immune to measles virus. The second injection can create up to 99% immunity. The effectiveness of the vaccine is very large in terms of preservation quality.